AllAboutFeed.net . News . US proposes new poultry feed port Add to favorites. United States governors Sonny Perdue of Georgia and Mark Sanford of South Carolina have proposed to build a new joint port authority that could handle poultry exports from the south eastern United States and expedite feed imports for poultry production. AllAboutFeed.net . News . US proposes new poultry feed port Add to favorites. The two states would form a Bi-State Port Authority with a contract to be approved...

Meanwhile, bird flu has struck two duck farms in southern Vietnam, the government said just days after claiming the virus had been contained in the Southeast Asian country. Bird flu has killed two more Indonesians, taking the death toll in the nation worst hit by the deadly virus to 71, a health official said Sunday, AFP reported. Sixty-five ducks died on two small, private farms in the southern province of Ca Mau, and tests late last month showed they were infected with the lethal H5N 1...

Prof Wall told a Northern Ireland Poultry Association conference that in the new political structure, financial support could become available to establish state-of-the-art disease surveillance across the entire island to prove that it has healthy flocks and products. He said in the changed political climate, where people North and South will be working together for the benefit of all citizens, it was never more opportune for an all-island approach to poultry flock health and product marketing.

Calf with tiger appetite wolfs poultry industry March 8, 2007 When dozens of chickens went missing from a remote West Bengal village, everyone blamed the neighbourhood dogs. But Ajit Ghosh, the owner of the missing chickens, eventually solved the puzzle when he caught his cow - a sacred animal for the Hindu family - gobbling up several of them at night. The family stood guard on Monday night at the cow shed after 48 chickens went missing in a month. Reliance on the information this site...

Well then, how will we deal with it? If neuraminidase inhibitors, which are flu antivirals, are used aggressively at the site of emergence, then we would have a fairly good chance of controlling the flu - maybe 70 to 80 percent - or at least slowing it enough so that there'd be time to make vaccines. They're different enough that you don't have good cross-immunity, and newly reassorted viruses, with different proteins on their surfaces, tend to be quite a bit more virulent. Well then, how...